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Motorola's LEGO Phone and Other News You Need to Know

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world.

Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. If you liked playing with LEGOs as a kid, Motorola's Project Ara could be your dream come true: It's an open hardware platform for building modular smartphones. Appleannounced its earnings for the fourth quarter. The company brought in a cool $37.5 billion, but profits declined year-over-year for the third straight quarter. And Netflix has a big idea to shake up the movie industry: It wants to make movies that premiere on the streaming service the same day they premiere in theaters.

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